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An Afternoon with the author: Fred Kirschenmann

Sunday, May 2, 2 p.m., Ames Public Library, Ames

Join us for a reading by Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann from his newest book, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (University Press of Kentucky 2010).The book is a collection of Kirschenmann’s writings on farming, philosophy and sustainability over a 30-year journey toward what has been called a new agrarianism. Kirschenmann splits his time among Iowa, his family’s North Dakota organic farm and New York, where he is President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.

Sponsors are the Leopold Center and Ames Public Library; Wheatsfield Cooperative Grocery of Ames will provide refreshments. Co-sponsors: AgArts, MFA Creative Writing and the Environment Program at Iowa State University, the ISU Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture Student Association, Story County Soil and Water Conservation District, ISU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Squaw Creek Watershed Coalition, Thousand Friends of Iowa, Practical Farmers of Iowa, Women, Food and Agriculture Network, Iowa Water Center and the Iowa Wildlife Center.

Peek at a prototype

Iowa State University agricultural engineer Lie Tang (right) listens to suggestions from Mary Ellen Miller to improve an automated weeding machine for produce crops that will be tested in the field this season. He has a two-year Leopold Center grant to develop the prototype, which was on display April 1 during the Center’s marketing and food systems workshop.


 

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